"I'm gonna show people a whole new
side to BO DIDDLEY. In fact, I think I'm
probably gonna shock a few people! I gave the record companies a lot of my
material over the years, but I kept the best stuff! I'm currently fixin'
to
release recordings available exclusively from off my new "Bo Bo Diddley's
Turnup
Root" website of me playing classical music, for instance. I also have a
brand
new song comin' out titled "We Ain't Scared", that will also be
available
exclusively from my new "Bo Bo Diddley's Turnup Root" website, and
that I just
know is all set to get people talkin'!"

In conjunction with the "Bo Bo
Diddley's Turnup Root" website, BO DIDDLEY is
currently also shaping up to release CDs from off his website of both brand new
recordings as well as a series of exciting limited edition collectors' CDs
of
previously unreleased archive material recorded in his various home studios
during the past 40 years.

Right now, visitors to his website can shop
online at "Bo Diddley's Online
Store" powered by CafePress.com and purchase a range of cool-looking
and
exclusive limited edition items including T-shirts, sweatshirts, BBQ aprons
and
vehicle license plate frames that will make perfect gifts for the forthcoming
holiday season.

As we mentioned to you in an previous
newsletter, BO DIDDLEY and the funk/soul
band Munkeez Strikin' Matchiz have just recorded and are set to release a
brand
new and hard-hitting song titled "We Ain't Scared".

Recorded at the Skylab Recording Studios in
Gainesville, FL, the track is one of
three produced at a recent 10 hour recording session by BO DIDDLEY's long-time
producer Scott Free and features BO DIDDLEY on lead vocals, Bodetta on keyboards
and vocals, Jozon Mezak on bass and vocals, Shadow on drums and vocals, Jo C
on
percussion and vocals and Scott "Skyntyte" Free on guitar and vocals.

"We Ain't Scared" was written to
capture the feelings of patriotism that BO
DIDDLEY's fans have expressed to him at his US concert performances since the
terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001.

To listen to an exclusive 2 minute audio
sample of "We Ain't Scared" and to read
the transcript of a no punches pulled interview with BO DIDDLEY on the occasion
of the recent broadcast debut of the song, you are invited to visit the
newly-launched "Bo Bo Diddley's Turnup Root" website at
http://www.turnup-root.com/ After they have listened to the audio sample,
visitors are encouraged to e-mail the website with their thoughts and comments
or to place an order for a copy of the song on CD.

And finally, for any of you fans living in
the north-central Florida area of the
US, the funk/soul band Munkeez Strikin' Matchiz, which includes in its line-up
BO DIDDLEY's daughter Bodetta on keyboards and vocals and his long-time record
producer Scott Free on guitars, keyboards and vocals, are playing at Eddie C's,
1315 S. Main St. in Gainesville, FL this Friday (November 1st), beginning
at
9.00pm.

Book
Description:
Chuck Berry is one of the greatest talents in popular
music, and also an individual legendary for his difficulty
and capriciousness. It's no exaggeration to
say that, with songs like "Roll Over Beethoven",
"Johnny B Goode, "No Particular Place to Go" and a
whole host of others, he invented rock and roll.
Literally dozens of his songs are now timless classics
still performed by bands in clubs and pubs every night
across the world. As a wordsmith he also set a
benchmark for intricate, dazzingly witty and memorable
lyrics unequalled by perhaps anyone apart from Bob
Dylan. And he invented the duck walk.

But
as a musician he has been respected rather than
ever loved by his peers - after producing the
birthday-tribute film "Hail, Hail Rock and Roll", for him,
Keith Richards even remarked that he "wouldn't
warm to Chuck Berry if he was cremated next to me".
Berry would always tour by himself, and use a
different clutch of pick-up musicians in every town,
to avoid the expenses of keeping a band on the road;
he would always insist on payment in cash up front
before he'd even go on stage; he'd usually perform the
contractual minimum of a short set; and he'd not only
invest his considerable wealth in property and a
stable of cars but also shamelessly congratulate
himself on his acquisitiveness. And his career has
been overshadowed, and more that once stalled, by
trouble with the law, and time in jail for a
relationship with an under-age woman.

Until
now, Chuck Berry's own maverick autobiography
has been the main source for anyone wanting to read
about the life of this extraordinary genius, for there
is no other word. But now, John Collis has interviewed
Berry's fellow musicians, as well as former promoters
and tour managers, and researched the truth about
Berry's life back in his home city of St Louis, to
produce the first rounded, objective and sometimes
shocking portrait of a man who, even in his seventies,
is still treading the boards and singing of "Sweet
Little Sixteen".

About
the Author:
John Collis was the author of the legendary "Rock
Primer" back in the seventies and has also written a
biography of Van Morrison and a history of Chess
Records, the American blues label. He lives in London,
England.